Carte-de-visite of Rebecca, Charlie & Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans was taken at a school for emancipated slaves. According to an article in Harper's Weekly in 1864, the children had been set free by General Benjamin F. Butler in New...

Special mortgage taken by Francis (Francois) Duplessis (b. 1786 in New Orleans) on twenty two slaves. This mortgage, held by the Union Bank of Louisiana, replaces a previous mortgage on thirty one slaves.

Inventory of property possibly drawn up as part of the settlement of the estate related to the Jeffries Plantation. Inventory lists eighty slaves by first name arranged by families. Information regarding their ages, years of birth or death, and in...

Letter to James Anderson, manager of the White House Plantation from George Washington Parke Custis, the grandson of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, from Mt. Washington. The letter concerns the management of the properties, sale of livestock,...

Letter to Quaker abolitionist Abraham L. Pennock in Haverford, Pennsylvania from a fellow Quaker in England cautioning him about activism with Abolitionist societies in America. The correspondent also inquires about the availability of work and...

Letter to Quaker abolitionist Abraham L. Pennock in Haverford, Pennsylvania from a fellow Quaker in England cautioning him about activism with Abolitionist societies in America. The correspondent also inquires about the availability of work and...

Correspondence from John Bennitt to his wife Charlotte, June 1, 1863. During this time, Bennitt works as a hospital surgeon and treats the wounded of the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He is reassigned to the 19th regiment, and is captured by...

Correspondence from John Bennitt of Centreville, Michigan to his wife Charlotte, September 6, 1863. During this time, Bennitt leaves Nashville, Tennessee to rejoin Rosecrans’s Army of the Cumberland as it begins the Tullahome campaign against...

Correspondence from surgeon John Bennitt of Centreville, Michigan to his wife Charlotte, December 11 and 13, 1863. During this time, Bennitt’s regiment is ordered to McMinnville, Tennessee, to garrison the town on a Confederate communications...

Correspondence from John Bennitt to his wife Charlotte, October 12, 1862. During this time, Bennitt enlists as an assistant surgeon in the 19th Michigan Infantry. Bennitt’s regiment moves from Dowagiac, Michigan to Cincinnati, where it joins...